How do I get anchor text in an image link?

Can anyone tell me if there is any way of getting anchor text into an image link.

I have an image that sites use to link to my site, but I want the keywords in the anchor text of the link, however if they use the image to link to me then I get no anchor text, is there a way around this?

I was wondering if using a title= in the link would act as anchor text, like below

<a href="http://www.MYSITE.com/" title="KEY WORDS GO HERE"><img src="http://www.MYSITE.com/NAMEofIMAGE.jpg" ></a>


Can anyone help with this, if this is not the way to go?

Thanks

Sean

 

use alt rather than title as in
<a href="http://www.MYSITE.com/" alt="ANCHOR TEXT GO HERE"><img src="http://www.MYSITE.com/NAMEofIMAGE.jpg" ></a>

 

Thanks for that qazu, will that act as though it were anchor text, in the eyes of the search engines?

 

Actually the proper html should be:
<a href="http://www.MYSITE.com/" title="KEYWORDS GO HERE"><img src="http://www.MYSITE.com/NAMEofIMAGE.jpg" alt="ANCHOR TEXT GOES HERE" /></a>

Anchors cannot have an ALT tag only IMGs.

 

souther is right, anchor text should use alt tag within image source

 

Ah, sorry, I didn't check that, souther is right. And, yes, it will serve as anchor text.

 

Great. Thanks for correcting it.

 

thanks for that

I will correct the HTML

thanks again

Sean

 

And for the record, there's no such thing as anchor text in an image link.

You could use both, though:

<a href="somewhere">
<img src="something" alt="whatever">
some text also
</a>

You'll need to style it to not look ugly. Most people use a background image and set the height/width of the anchor.

 

Very helpful. I was also searching for a way to add some seo juice for some of my image links. Anyway, I think the best would be to use both alt and title.